As a student you’ll be working in the Belgian software R&D team of Western Digital Corporation (formerly known as Amplidata), based in Ghent (@Ghelamco Arena). This team of storage software experts is working on producing releases of the ActiveScale Storage System. This team has lots of good ideas for prototypes, product & process improvements they want to see battle-tested. As WDC sees the value and the quality of engineering education, they’d like to get a couple of passionate students on board who want to learn about distributed storage software, how contemporary multi-person development is done and how working in our team feels like. See this student job as a unique opportunity for you to feel the vibe in a local and global company. If you like it and we like you…. We might have a great journey ahead of us.

** Big Data - Hadoop Integration **

In this student job, you will work on connecting different components in the Hadoop ecosystem with Activescale, which is an S3-compatible storage system (https://aws.amazon.com/s3). As an Activescale system is built to store petabytes of data, it is the perfect storage target for Big Data applications in the Hadoop ecosystem